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Episode 14: Inner Work, Illustration, and Self-Acceptance ft. Allison Filice

For this episode I spoke with illustrator, designer, and podcaster Allison Filice about her experience as an illustrator and podcaster becoming a new mom, and the inner journey she experienced while transitioning to becoming an illustrator.

In this episode we talk about:

• Allison introduces herself
• Her expectations for motherhood and career before having a child
• Accepting the need to take a step back from work as a new mother
• Starting her podcast, The Friendly Unknown
• Her experience with depression at that time in her life
• Dealing with depression and recognizing it if you have experienced it before
• The importance with doing things for yourself and not for external validation
• Healing through following your inner voice
• The power of others’  stories
• Her experience working as an editorial freelance illustrator
• Lacking boundaries with work and time management
• Basing self-worth on career accomplishments
• Realizing her relationship with work needed to change
• Being on a hiatus from her podcast
• Letting herself just be and waiting until the right timing to start on her next project
• Her journey with self-development and inner-work
• Switching paths from being a designer to an illustrator
• The inner-work required on her path to becoming an illustrator
• The impact of the media your consume and how it shapes your perspective and reality
• Letting go of limiting beliefs
• Her process for creating podcast episodes
• Struggling with perfectionism
• Focusing on enjoying the process of creating and not just the end product
• Allison’s recent/current interests - depth psychology, reading, tarot, and pondering existence
• Allison’s podcast and book recommendations (links): The Creative Peptalk podcast, Don't Keep Your Day Job podcast ,This Jungian Life podcast, Contact (1985 novel) by Carl Sagan, The Heroine's Journey (1990 book) by Maureen Murdoch
• The timing of our encounters with ideas, media, and others’ stories and work
• The importance of being selective with books or media we consume
• Focusing on what you’re most passionate about and being truly yourself

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